Sound the alarm!!
posted by Bunnery on Mon 19th Feb, 07 at 18:25:10
How's it going with you guys?
Good - I hope!
Well, life inside continues to be interesting. Have done a full week solo with the young offenders. It proved challenging to say the least. They are certainly ingenious. For example my first day I put out the brand new rap magazine - and left the previous one there too, for them to read. After just half an hour they had BOTH disapeared!
Appealing to their better nature to return it turned out to be fruitless - so an officer had to be called to search each of them as they left. They were warned that they would be punished by ALL having to "dine in" (eat all their meals in their cells) if the culprit did not return the mags. Still nothing! So they were searched on their way out, one by one - but only one was found. It had been concealed down a sleeve. However - despite vigorous patting by the officer the other (new) one was never recovered. Where on earth could they have hidden it?
Answers on a postcard to the address below please.............
Then a couple of days later I had a group in and two of them were already arguing.They sat next to each other and continued to wind each other up as the others spurred them on by saying "You're not going to let him get away with that are you?" or even more helpfully "He's asking for a punch!"
Then this escalated to shouting, then they were standing eyeball to eyeball threatening each other. The tutor who came in with them looked at me and then at the alarm button behind the desk. So I pressed it! I was surprised that it didn't set off any audible alarm - but I needn't have worried as within seconds three officers - including the Assistant Governor came running down the corridor and into the library. They separated them - and took them back to the wing. Nice to know for sure that the system works ;-)
The rest of the session passed peacefully... at least they didn't break the chairs this time.
Ah bliss - this week I'm back in the women's prison which is full of cultured French women and ex-convent [long word]
Sorry for being out of touch. Whats Rap Magazine? Is it "yo, yo, yo" or more.... Risqué?